The district gets a creative center - but carefully

"We knew it would be complex and would take a long time," said Munich's cultural advisor, Dr. Hans-Georg Küppers for planning the future of the creative quarter Dachauerstraße. Initial doomsayers of the type "This is not at all" had been proved wrong: step by step building up. Now a jury for the historical Jutier-ton and the neighboring hall has selected five finalists and their use of concepts. By the end is the final extension, setup and use concept will be developed.
Two dozen teams had submitted ideas. It was Kueppers, as on 27 July in a public presentation of the jury's findings, said neither the number nor the quality as expected. The jury was in Kueppers' line with the former director of the intimate theater, the director of the film festival, a curator at the Haus der Kunst, the Urban Planning Councillor, several professors, city councils, county committee members and other persons to occupied the head of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Basel caliber. She did after Kueppers' words still difficult to extract the best ideas.
After the summer break, the five finalist teams will come together for a workshop with the Department of Culture, to promote the realization. Kueppers let hinted that he would like to see form this cooperation. By the end of the year, then to the final concept will be developed. Its implementation will take several years and is, as several teams emphasized, does not apply to all eternity. The utilization plan must remain flexible to provide for new ideas and new space, make modifications and conversions as easy as possible, but still provide an enduring organizational framework.
This framework will one of the teams' penetrating everything "in a create, but still vague, participatory approach, another in the form of a profit company, again another using a collecting agency for artistic products and a team, hear from their presentation to the expertise of an accountant could, with a foundation of public law as a co-sponsor a limited liability company and an association of artists. Four of the five teams will leave the existing two buildings out of respect for its historic industrial architecture as original as possible - they see the different options, but make installations without destroying the impression of space. A team would like to connect the two buildings by a bridge and a lake created among them know. All teams wishing to use the outdoor space intensive. Likely to be decisive but that interior design will prevail eventually.
Whether one of the two halls is basically a generously to members of Santander presentation and venue, and the other a much small-scale-to-use office and production hall, or whether the one for pure and the other is to be optimized for low usage or whether the two facilities will have function rooms (a team in the Jutierhalle proposes a theater space for 400 guests with a telescopic stage and in the hall tonnes another hall with 500 seats or standing room for about a thousand), will show only the optimization round in the autumn. Widespread agreement was that the future school and college in the activity plan should be included as well as future residents and domiciled in the quarter already neighbors. In any case, it should be one or more restaurants. Increased funding to the area as a venue Jutierhalle see all the teams, the one with the other without a gallery installation, a fixed partition walls, the other split "just" by Iron Curtains. Further details of the interior living spaces are quite apart yet. Thus, for not predict whether and where one, two or three stories will be expanded, how much light to penetrate through the upper hall ceiling to the ground floor and where daylight is necessary at all. A team pleads for example, explicitly for a sound-and light-insulated "black box" in which it could come in film and television productions. A team is thinking especially of the independent artist scene and wants this so fragmented and diverse as possible to make room for another may think of large events to trade shows. Common to all of the participatory approach again: Not intended for creative users expanded here, to be furnished and rented out, but with them. A team summarized the challenges to be steps along this way: First it was necessary to reorganize structurally to enable to be involved and open to the process as much as possible, to then derive a basic structure for the halls, so apart from a planning and management team building to design the basic structure with stairs, bathroom facilities, a restaurant and an administrative area with a caretaker and the first action areas, in a third step, it was necessary to establish this site to be aware of the city, in principle, but only temporary, and on the profitability of the tenant to staffelnde offer leases and complete, and so make it as step four, the constant renewal of the creative quarter possible. A team also argued explicitly committed to implement a concept that can be especially after the already active on the site creators to 2016 due to relocation in different lengths fused to preserving old buildings in their operations. The next five years should therefore be explicitly considered as test operation and deallocated. It was spontaneous applause, as interim solutions to portable, this user group logically very interested.